The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 60

If she found the rye bread too hard to bake, or the oven taking too long to heat, she just murmured, ‘I should like to see my six loaves on the shelf above the bread box,’ and two hours after there they were.

Who acts: Barbaik, rye bread, oven, I, loaves · What happens: find, bake, take, heat, murmur, like · To what, where: rye bread, six loaves, shelf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, rye bread, oven, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
5	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	compound
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bake	mark
10	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 murmured	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 murmured	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 oven	det
14	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 murmured	nsubj
15	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 oven	acl
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 taking	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 heat	mark
19	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 taking	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 murmured	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 murmured	nsubj
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 murmured	advmod
23	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 murmured	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 like	xcomp
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 loaves	nmod:poss
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 loaves	nummod
33	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 see	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 shelf	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shelf	det
36	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obl
37	above	above	ADP	_	40 box	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 box	det
39	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 box	compound
40	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shelf	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hours	cc
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 hours	nummod
45	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	conj
46	after	after	ADP	_	47 there	case
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	obl
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 were	nsubj
49	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	ccomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Barbaik	the rye bread			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent bread=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bake	to-infinitive	the rye bread not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	take	gerund	the oven not said here			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	heat	to-infinitive	the oven not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	murmur speech: other	past	the oven				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my six loaves	the shelf above the bread box		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loaf=Stimulus
8	be	past	loaves = loaf				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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